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Workout Pass Review
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Editor's Verdict: Workout Pass's particular take on the online fitness boom is that rather than simply offering a range of workouts under its own banner it acts as a portal allowing subscribers access to 43 other sites, each of which offers a unique selection of specialized workouts devised by fitness professionals which you can use to beef up your exercise program. The Workout Pass website itself is simple, well-laid out and rather butch. It gives you a good idea of exactly what specialized workout sites you will be able to get access to via Workout Pass and what each of them have to offer. This is handy given the nature of the site as it ensures you'll know before signing up whether you will be able to find something that speaks to your particular sporting bent on one of these sites. What's slightly lacking is an easily accessible FAQ or "How it Works" page that tells you exactly how Workout Pass functions and what you will be paying for. And there is also the odd annoying pop-up to shoulder out of the way before you can read the text (is it just me or are pop-up's objectionable even if they turn out to offer something you might otherwise find interesting?). A selling point of Workout Pass is that the workouts available here are not generated by computer programs "created by a geeky IT department" (and hey, why waste the opportunity to dredge up a lazy stereotype and in doing so alienate a section of your potential customers) but "battle-tested" and devised by trainers who are "in the trenches". The slightly worrying overuse of war and killing metaphors aside, this makes an interesting point. These workouts have apparently been devised and tested by fitness professionals and shown to get results. Whilst this is arguably an advantage, it should be pointed out that most of the fitness websites that do offer computer-generated workouts do so in order to be able to offer a uniquely tailored workout for individual members (which would cost too much for real trainers to produce individually), whereas the workouts here can't really offer that degree of customization and instead rely on the member's ability to choose the right workout for them. The blurb for Workout Pass makes much of the fact that all these workouts are devised by professional trainers whereas, according to Workout Pass, "most" other fitness websites use computer generated workouts. However, even a cursory look at some of the websites available shows that these days the majority of them that offer workout programs do use fitness experts to draw them up. There aren't really all that many entirely computer-generated workout sites around, at least not anymore. All of which raises the question of what exactly does Workout Pass do except allow you to visit other websites? Well, the argument is that Workout Pass saves you the time and money you might have spent accessing these websites individually, which would be true if you were likely to subscribe to a significant proportion of them under your own steam, though in practice most fitness website users tend to find one or two sites that suit their needs and stick with them, so really what Workout Pass are offering is foremost variety, which itself is no bad thing. And the variety on offer is pretty impressive. There are specialized workout sites accessible here dedicated to everything from training for strength, flexibility and weight loss (for men or women) to "taking your game to the next level" in myriad sports including basket-ball, swimming, Lacrosse and everything in between. There are workouts for people who enjoy carrying sandbags around or like to play with their kettlebell or Swiss balls. There are even specialized workouts for different body zones, for senior citizens, and even exercises for pregnancy (that's for during pregnancy, you understand, not for getting pregnant). Having said that there are other fitness websites in our ranking who offer workouts in a huge range of different sports and activities all on one site, though of course you may enjoy the specialized appeal of an individual site dedicated entirely to your favorite sport. This sheer diversity also seems to count against the argument that you save money by getting access to all 43 sites by subscribing to Workout Pass - unless you are some kind of sporting polymath or freak of nature you are unlikely to need specialized workouts for water polo, E-tennis, weight loss for men and pregnancy all in one lifetime. Also, the claim that you will save money this way is perhaps not as weighty as it might have been a few years ago now that there are so many sites on the internet offering you specialized workouts for free. A bonus you get with Workout Pass is access to interactive conference calls and 'webinars' (like seminars but via the web) with fitness coaches and experts in various fields of sporting science. Unfortunately there is not much detail on the website to say how often, how substantial or how interactive these would be, presumably it depends on which of the specific training websites you're using as the sort of service each offers will inevitably be slightly different. That said, what WorkoutPass.com does offer you is variety, choice and access to potentially useful and undoubtedly useful sites as well as workouts you might not otherwise have come across. It is a fitness website introductions service, essentially. This is therefore potentially an interesting investment for the specialized workout fan who wants a program suited to their particular sport of choice. Whilst there are free workout sites out there, Workout Pass doesn't cost all that much and you are more or less guaranteed to find something suited to your own sporting proclivity, however obscure it may be. Click on the button below to check out Workout Pass for yourself...
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